Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:05:39 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem Message-ID: <20110116100539.00007e0a@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20110116072411.GA3732@tinyCurrent> References: <20110116072411.GA3732@tinyCurrent>
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > Master: ad4 <WDC WD2500BEVT-22ZCT0/11.01A11> SATA revision 2.x > As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable > this, what could I do? Since it's a WDC disk I guess it's one of the "green" ones. These have a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, but it may just be a default APM setting that can be changed from within FreeBSD using sysutils/ataidle and the -P switch. -- Bruce Cran
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